Editing Sexual orientation (section)

=== Kinsey data ===

In ''[[Kinsey Reports|Sexual Behavior in the Human Male]]'' (1948) and ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Female'' (1953), by [[Alfred C. Kinsey]] et al., people were asked about their sexual behaviors and then assigned a rating by the researchers on a [[Kinsey scale|scale]] from completely heterosexual to completely homosexual.<ref>{{cite web
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	| title = The Kinsey Scale: Taking the Kinsey test
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	| access-date = October 13, 2024
	| quote = An official Kinsey “test” does not exist, which is contrary to popular belief and many tests across the web. The original Kinsey research team assigned a number based on a person's sexual history.}}</ref> Kinsey reported that when the individuals' behavior, as well as their identity, are analyzed, a significant number of people appeared to be at least somewhat bisexual – i.e., they have some attraction to either sex, although usually one sex is preferred. Kinsey's methods have been criticized as flawed, particularly with regard to the randomness of his sample population, which included prison inmates, male prostitutes and those who willingly participated in discussion of previously taboo sexual topics. Nevertheless, [[Paul Gebhard]], subsequent director of the [[Kinsey Institute for Sex Research]], reexamined the data in the [[Kinsey Reports]] and concluded that removing the prison inmates and prostitutes barely affected the results.<ref name="MDOG">{{cite web|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/duberman.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020529022730/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/duberman.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2002-05-29 |title=The Kinsey Institute |work=kinseyinstitute.org }}</ref> More recent researchers believe that Kinsey overestimated the rate of same-sex attraction because of flaws in his sampling methods.<ref name=Bailey/><ref name=Balthazart/>{{rp|9}}<ref name=Lehmiller>{{cite book |last=Lehmiller |first=Justin |date=2018 |title=The Psychology of Human Sexuality |edition=Second |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JXJGDwAAQBAJ |publisher=John Wiley & Sons Ltd |isbn=9781119164739 |access-date=2020-07-16 |archive-date=2020-12-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231045623/https://books.google.com/books?id=JXJGDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|147}}